June 2013

06/14/2013

A house sits undamaged in the aftermath of the Black Forest Fire in Black Forest, Colorado June 13, 2013. Hundreds of firefighters made a determined stand on Thursday to stop the wildfire that has already destroyed some 360 homes from roaring into the outskirts of Colorado Springs after it billowed overnight into the most destructive blaze in state history.

06/13/2013

A couple of demonstrators embrace each other as they are hounded by riot police during a student protest against the recent rise in public transportation fares in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 13, 2013.

06/12/2013

Palestinian boys take part in a military-style summer camp being held by the Islamic Jihad movement during the youngsters' summer school vacation in Rafah town, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 12, 2013. Thousands of youngsters between the age of six and 16, can participate in the summer camp where they receive military as well as religious training.

06/11/2013

A protester pulls back the cord on a slingshot in Taksim square in Istanbul on June 11, 2013. Riot police re-entered Istanbul's protest square today, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at firework-hurling demonstrators in a fresh escalation of unrest after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would meet with protest leaders. Hundreds of police officers backed by armoured cars moved in on the square in the early morning, saying they wanted to remove makeshift barricades erected by protesters and clear the area of flags and banners.

06/10/2013

Hand crafted bones are laid out on the National Mall, June 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. The "One Million Bones" project collected one million handcafted bones to be laid out for three-days on the National Mall to raise awareness of ongoing genocide and mass atrocities in places Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Burma and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

06/08/2013

A woman covers her baby with a Turkish flag as she begs for money at Taksim Square on June 9, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey. The protests that began last week were initially over the fate of Taksim Gezi Park, one of the last significant green spaces in the centre of the city. The heavy-handed response of the police, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government's increasingly authoritarian agenda has broadened the rage of the clashes.

06/07/2013

A member of the women's feminist organization Femen with the words "Forward Russia !" written on her back runs away from policemen trying to arrest her after she shouted "Vladimir I love you!" and performed with a ribbon an impersonation of Russian gymnast Alina Kabayeva during an action held outside the Russian embassy in Kiev on June 7, 2013.

06/06/2013

A 19-year-old seamstress, Reshma Begum, who survived for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed garment factory building left the hospital Thursday with a new job at an international hotel chain. Begum had vowed never again to work in a garment factory after she was rescued from the wreckage of the eight-storey Rana Plaza building, where 1,129 people were killed in April in the world’s worst garment industry disaster. She will trade in the monthly wage of $65 that she used to earn for a basic salary of $450 in her new role welcoming guests.

06/05/2013

A woman pays her respects in front of the gravestone of her son who died for the country, at the national cemetery in Seoul, June 5, 2013, on the eve of South Korea's Memorial Day to commemorate fallen patriots.